Chapter 248: See the Dark Mark Again

As far as the result goes, Harry finally won the Ravenclaw Gold Title in place of the Triwizard Cup, and ended the reopening of the Triwizard Tournament in a vague way.

When Harry appeared from the green flame with a smile on his face, the audience cheered for him.

Even if the bowl of soup in the Final Three has already changed its taste, if the people who drink the soup don't taste it, it can actually be regarded as a happy person.

Ending with Harry becoming the champion is actually a good ending.

However, the game of all parties hidden behind this grand event can only be said to have just begun. As soon as Harry appeared in front of everyone with the golden crown in hand, the chaos beneath the calm had already begun.

Dumbledore sat on the table, calmly watching the young wizards cheering for Harry, but his heart felt a little relieved by the vicissitudes of life.

Truth be told, he had a crush on Harry, a little boy he would never become. Harry had the courage to fight his enemies and his determination to be decisive to others—but he didn't.

Yes, no one could have imagined that he, known as the "greatest white wizard of our time", was in fact a ...... At least, he doesn't think he's brave enough.

Everybody thinks he's strong, and he's really strong...... But perhaps only Maca vaguely understood how strong this old wizard was.

However, it is such a "very powerful" wizard, but in fact, he is lamenting his "cowardice".

He hated himself.

He hated himself for witnessing his sister's death, for not being able to correct Tom Riddle, and for having no love but not having the courage to break the conventions of the world.

He hated himself for only knowing how to blame himself.

Dumbledore was actually very clear, whether it was Voldemort's actions or Maca's plan of action, he had already understood.

But when the two students are fighting with each other, whether it is good or evil, he wants to save it, but he can't save it.

Maca made a big fuss about the World Cup that day and played a play with him, but afterwards he could only sigh for his performance in the ruins.

He had to admit that he had never been a good teacher - could there be a good teacher like him, who could only watch his two students fight each other and fight to the death?

He didn't want either of Maca and Tom to die like that, he wanted the two of them to live together peacefully and call him "Professor" together.

But he never woke Tom up, not once!

What's even more ridiculous is that when Tom, aka Voldemort, tries to upset the entire British wizarding world, he finds that he simply can't do it by himself to erase his students from this world.

All he could do was let his two students fight and kill each other?

"If I can exchange my death for a happy ending, it must be the best." - Dumbledore had thought so more than once, and he had even assumed a plan for it.

Looking at the elated Harry below, and thinking of Maca in the far southeast of Europe, Dumbledore shook his head secretly.

Harry's kid is okay to say, at least there are traces of his life to follow; But the Makana child...... Even the experienced Dumbledore couldn't guess what kind of person Maca would grow to be.

Maca is actually a very selfish child, or rather, he only sticks to the most fundamental principles in his heart. When a person or something involves his principles, whether good or evil, no matter how good or evil, no longer affects his judgment.

Even if Maca was going to destroy the world because of something in the future, Dumbledore wouldn't be surprised at all.

Fortunately, the child also understood the beauty of "love" - which is one of the reasons why Dumbledore was willing to let go and let it do his own thing.

As Dumbledore pondered calmly, he suddenly seemed to sense something, and turned his erratic gaze back in Harry's direction.

Tom Riddle's minions are finally in action.

……

"Potter, is this the magic item used to replace the Triumph Cup? What is it? ”

Surrounded by everyone, Harry stood in the middle with Ravenclaw's golden crown, smiling and showing it to the young wizards around him.

This is a proof that he has worked hard to overcome layers of hurdles and finally become a champion.

For an ordinary young wizard, he is indeed a child of courage and strength, and if you put aside Maca's perversion, Harry's becoming a champion is not an accident.

But when he was the only "normal person" left in the third event, the champion was a little embarrassed - of course, there were not many people who knew the truth.

"Hey! Potter, show me - what kind of magic item is this, it looks so cool! ”

Ravenclaw's golden crown was quickly passed through the crowd, and most of the young wizards wanted to touch it, and Harry was not that stingy.

"Whoa—"

Just as everyone was looking at the golden crown, a strange sound came from afar. Everyone subconsciously turned to look, but immediately found that the scene they saw had an indescribable sense of déjà vu.

"Dark Mark of the Devil!"

This time, more students than last time recognized what the skull in the air meant, and panicked...... It's coming again.

There was a commotion in the crowd, and everyone was looking left and right, or exclaiming, and even the cautious students had begun to move.

Harry was stunned to find that the golden crown that had been passed around in the crowd had disappeared without a trace.

At that moment, two students took advantage of the commotion to sneak out of the crowd and make their way to the exit of the Quidditch pitch - Moody, who had been monitoring the scene, immediately followed.

“…… Albus. ”

On Dumbledore's side, the other professors began to take the initiative to maintain order, and Professor McGonagall paused and looked towards Dumbledore.

"I'll leave it to you first, Minerva." Dumbledore stood up, still calmly, and said, "I'll go over there and see what's going on." ”

"But, Ravenclaw's ......crown," McGonagall hesitated as she looked down.

"No, it's okay," Dumbledore smiled and nodded, "we can't lose the crown, our priority is to keep the students safe." ”

With that, Dumbledore also glanced down, and then hurried towards the school gate.

……

“…… Tonks, watch out for the top of your head! ”

On the wide horse road by the woods outside the school gate, the battle was actually very fierce.

Long before the Dark Mark was issued, Voldemort's Death Eaters had been engaged in a battle with the Order of the Phoenix members who were lying in ambush, and all kinds of enchanted beams staggered back and forth, brick shards and turfed dirt in all directions, and the battle was quite chaotic.

Just looking at the number of people, it was obvious that the Death Eaters were a little bit bigger.

But even then, that's not all. Compared to the Death Eaters who had been waiting in the cemetery before, there were obviously not many people here.

Yes, the members of the Order of the Phoenix, who are the early warning team, can resist for a while.

It's just that from this, it can be found that the number of people in the Order of the Phoenix is still too small. To deal head-on with Voldemort's attack, this alone is indeed not enough.

It's no wonder that the Order of the Phoenix's purpose is primarily to secretly resist the Death Eaters.

"Drill the heart and cut the bones!"

Among the trees beside the road, Bellatrix was smirking down from the canopy, and without hesitation, she cast a Drill Heart Spell at Tonks.

Tonks still had a good record in Auror training, and he reacted quite quickly at the moment. When she heard Lupin's warning from above, she immediately rolled to the side to dodge.

"Except for your weapons!"

A pillar of red light shot towards Bellatrix, but it was a bit too quick to cast the target, even if it was fast enough, it was still easily dodged by the other party.

But Tonks wasn't trying to hit the other side, she just wanted to buy herself a little time to stabilize the pace of the fight.

"Armor protection!" "Faint!"

At that moment, Tonks defended and Bellatrix attacked, and the fighting habits of the two began to show.

Tonks knows very well that his fighting ability is not his strong point, although he is not without the ability to resist, but he will always be unable to resist it over time.

So, she focuses more on defense and dodging.

Bellatrix, on the other hand, has always been offensive instead of defending, and she has always been a little scornful of defensive spells.

"Avada suo!"

Tonks' eyes widened, and he hurriedly jumped to the side again - the Iron Armor Curse couldn't prevent the Death Curse, and she had to dodge it, or she would die to death.

"Hahahaha...... The main talent is the most powerful! Long live the Dark Lord! ”

Bellatrix screamed sharply, and unleashed the next spell in the direction Tonks was dodging - it was not a small burden for her to use the Requisition Charm, it was not a spell that could be cast continuously.

The rest of the Order of the Phoenix were pinned down, and even Kingsley Shackle, an elite Auror, was under the care of several Death Eaters.

However, in such a critical situation, Tonks is not without means to fight back.

Seeing that the opponent was attacking aggressively and aggressively, she simply rolled again and hid in the bushes. When Bellatrix cast two more spells on the bushes, she had already scurried in the other direction.

"Who!"

Just as he was about to push through the bushes and try to pull Tonks out again, Bellatrix suddenly heard a sound of sooths on his left.

"It's me, Lestrange."

A slightly muffled male voice rang out from behind the tree over there, and then a large man with a round waist suddenly stepped out.

"Goyle? Why don't you go there and fight, why are you running here? Bellatrix asked sharply.

"Oh-" Goyle said in a gruff voice, "I'll see if you need help." ”